hello, My motherboard is an ASUS P8H61-M LE/CSM and my CPU is a Core i5 3470. I recently bought Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM RAM and after installing it my computer would not start up/load BIOS, despite there being power. I then took one stick out, and she booted up perfectly fine. So, will I be able to get both sticks to work or did I buy the wrong type of RAM?. Please let me know what I did wrong
upgrading from 6gb stock ram, need help
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Tradesman1
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Do you have the latest BIOS? Best to get that, if you already have it, start with 1 stick , raise DRAM voltage to 1.565 or so, save, exit, shutdown, add second stick and give it a try
It's dual channel - http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/P8H61M_LECSM_R20/specifications/ so it shouldn't have had 6gb ram at all. Your 2 x 4gb should work OK as long as its in the right dimm slots (per mobo manual) and the slots are clean.
If still not working, test with memtest.
If still not working, test with memtest.
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Yeah alot of the prebuilts went on a kick of loading 6GB for awhile (just being cheap, but (haHa) turned out to be more expensive than they thought. Unhappy customers, took longer to pair up 4GB sticks w/ 2GB sticks where they played nice
Tradesman1 :
Will be in and out, have a few people here 
happy new years. thanks again for your help. It turns out that one of the sticks is faulty (doh!)
I should have realized this a while ago. One final question though, would I be able to use the working HyperX stick with my old 4gb stick. Im guessing that it is a no, but I would like to be sure.
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Give it a try, if any problem, let me know and we can try some minor voltage/timing adjustments, DRAM is sort of a specialty of mine
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